Tom Mason:
CLASS OF 1982
Miami Sunset High SchoolClass of 1982
Miami, FL
Tom's Story
Tom is from Miami, Florida. Tom's schools include Miami Sunset High School. Tom later attended Santa Fe College, University of Florida (Teaching of English as a Second Language) .
Music Tom likes includes Frank M. Rodriguez (Musician), Emmylou Harris, Steely Dan. Books Tom likes include The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Hobbit. Movies Tom likes include The Big Lebowski, True Grit (1969), 2001: A Space Odyssey. TV shows Tom likes include Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Planet Earth, I Dream of Jeannie.
One of Tom's favorite quotes is:"“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" - Isaac Asimov, column in Newsweek (21 Januar...Expand for more
y 1980)
"There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan." - Herman Melville
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
-Fredrick Douglas
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards -anonymous
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty." _Abraham Lincoln
“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” - Jack Kerouac".
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